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MARUTTI, ANDREA — Sleepless Nights / Lysergic Mornings
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we welcome back the italian artist ANDREA MARUTTI (also known under the Amon or Never Known aliases, head of the sadly defunct Afe Records label too). andrea was the very first artist to have a 3" on talem, and that was exactly 18 years ago!
andrea proposes here a rather psychedelic yet dark and ambient journey in 2 parts...
notes by andrea marutti:
Sleepless Nights | Lysergic Mornings is particularly important both for talem and me, because it comes exactly 18 years after my Traces 94-95, which on December 3, 2001, inaugurated the now incredibly long series of the labels publications, and also because it represents my first proper release since I re-built my studio and started working on new music during the recent years.
A Cypher For Glitchbusters and Peters Psychedelic Breakfast, the two tracks featured on the EP in a seamless sequence, were created on purpose of a release on talem and were especially designed to fit the 3″ MiniCDr format.
In January 2019, as a sort of personal experiment on myself, I worked on this music exclusively by night. For about one week I decided to sleep no more than a few hours each day during the late afternoon, and stayed awake all night to work with my synthesizers, sampler, effects and so on.
The resulting lack of rest put me in a particular state of mind, where I was less focused on the search of an audiophile quality to the music, suggesting me to experiment with, and concentrate on, what would be usually considered errors. I intentionally included some glitches, tape hiss and various defects, and also used field recordings and other sounds which I originally recorded on cheap cassettes during the early 90s, when I had an habit to slow down sounds with two tape decks and I usually re-recorded the same cassettes hundreds of times.
Both titles are inspired by this experience, and the tracks have a sort of psychedelic quality, or at least that is the impression they still give me months after their creation.
A Cypher For Glitchbusters is an attempt to describe with just a few words the practice I mentioned a few lines above, while Peters Psychedelic Breakfast is both an hommage to a quite more famous sonic breakfast which I guess needs no further explanation and a personal dedication to my closest friend who has been supporting and helping me ever since my memory can remember.
https://taalem.bandcamp.com/album/sleepless-nights-lysergic-mornings-alm-131
"The first disc is by the Italian artist Andrea Marutti, who used to run a label called Afe
Records and also records as Amon, Spiral, Never Known and Lips Vago. His latest 3 for Talem
is, as the title implies, a hallucinogenic drone that throws in some weird wrenches as it gets closer to the end. Marutti works in the post-Lustmord dark ambient mode here, starting out with ominous blankets with low throb and slow-motion watery threat. After several minutes, the curtains lift and with cleansing light comes children talking and roughly-recorded scrape that seems like it jumped in from a different record. Its a neat tonal shift, one that continues into Maruttis second track,
Peters Psychedelic Breakfast. That title is, of course, a nod towards Pink Floyd, though its
unclear who Peter is or what the Floyd connection is. This track is another drone, though lighter in mood than the opener. The strangest part os the very end, in which the sound fades and dissipates, leaving a coda of digital glitches as if someone accidentally bumped the microphone or a cord went bad and then abruptly hits an off switch. Weird." [HS/VITAL WEEKLY]
"Abnormal mind expanding landscapes
Andrea Marutti is one pioneering sound art and ambient drone music producer with a large catalogue of recordings published on his own indie label (AFE Another Friendly Edition) and well noted niche publishers such as Eibon and Nextera.
Part of his new efforts are welcomed by the Belgium based label Talem (whose production is mostly devoted to experimental and underground electronic music with a fancy for droney artefacts). Among those last offerings sleepless nights | lysergic mornings plays with convincing technical abilities and inspirational inclinations on the wave of radical minimalism and eerily moving vaporous soundscapeswith Vance Orchestra and Quest. As stated in the press release the psych-out and extra-sensorial dimension is put to the front in those dense, ominous clouds of sounds and sustained electronic chords. The ensemble has a beautiful and striking vintage organic feel which give a heart ahead of the electronic curves. Repetition of phrases, looped textures are subtly punctuated by abstract micro-noises and musique concrte sounds. Somewhere between Deathprod, early Cluster I & II, Folk Rabe, and early Vidna Obmana." [Igloo Mag]
andrea proposes here a rather psychedelic yet dark and ambient journey in 2 parts...
notes by andrea marutti:
Sleepless Nights | Lysergic Mornings is particularly important both for talem and me, because it comes exactly 18 years after my Traces 94-95, which on December 3, 2001, inaugurated the now incredibly long series of the labels publications, and also because it represents my first proper release since I re-built my studio and started working on new music during the recent years.
A Cypher For Glitchbusters and Peters Psychedelic Breakfast, the two tracks featured on the EP in a seamless sequence, were created on purpose of a release on talem and were especially designed to fit the 3″ MiniCDr format.
In January 2019, as a sort of personal experiment on myself, I worked on this music exclusively by night. For about one week I decided to sleep no more than a few hours each day during the late afternoon, and stayed awake all night to work with my synthesizers, sampler, effects and so on.
The resulting lack of rest put me in a particular state of mind, where I was less focused on the search of an audiophile quality to the music, suggesting me to experiment with, and concentrate on, what would be usually considered errors. I intentionally included some glitches, tape hiss and various defects, and also used field recordings and other sounds which I originally recorded on cheap cassettes during the early 90s, when I had an habit to slow down sounds with two tape decks and I usually re-recorded the same cassettes hundreds of times.
Both titles are inspired by this experience, and the tracks have a sort of psychedelic quality, or at least that is the impression they still give me months after their creation.
A Cypher For Glitchbusters is an attempt to describe with just a few words the practice I mentioned a few lines above, while Peters Psychedelic Breakfast is both an hommage to a quite more famous sonic breakfast which I guess needs no further explanation and a personal dedication to my closest friend who has been supporting and helping me ever since my memory can remember.
https://taalem.bandcamp.com/album/sleepless-nights-lysergic-mornings-alm-131
"The first disc is by the Italian artist Andrea Marutti, who used to run a label called Afe
Records and also records as Amon, Spiral, Never Known and Lips Vago. His latest 3 for Talem
is, as the title implies, a hallucinogenic drone that throws in some weird wrenches as it gets closer to the end. Marutti works in the post-Lustmord dark ambient mode here, starting out with ominous blankets with low throb and slow-motion watery threat. After several minutes, the curtains lift and with cleansing light comes children talking and roughly-recorded scrape that seems like it jumped in from a different record. Its a neat tonal shift, one that continues into Maruttis second track,
Peters Psychedelic Breakfast. That title is, of course, a nod towards Pink Floyd, though its
unclear who Peter is or what the Floyd connection is. This track is another drone, though lighter in mood than the opener. The strangest part os the very end, in which the sound fades and dissipates, leaving a coda of digital glitches as if someone accidentally bumped the microphone or a cord went bad and then abruptly hits an off switch. Weird." [HS/VITAL WEEKLY]
"Abnormal mind expanding landscapes
Andrea Marutti is one pioneering sound art and ambient drone music producer with a large catalogue of recordings published on his own indie label (AFE Another Friendly Edition) and well noted niche publishers such as Eibon and Nextera.
Part of his new efforts are welcomed by the Belgium based label Talem (whose production is mostly devoted to experimental and underground electronic music with a fancy for droney artefacts). Among those last offerings sleepless nights | lysergic mornings plays with convincing technical abilities and inspirational inclinations on the wave of radical minimalism and eerily moving vaporous soundscapeswith Vance Orchestra and Quest. As stated in the press release the psych-out and extra-sensorial dimension is put to the front in those dense, ominous clouds of sounds and sustained electronic chords. The ensemble has a beautiful and striking vintage organic feel which give a heart ahead of the electronic curves. Repetition of phrases, looped textures are subtly punctuated by abstract micro-noises and musique concrte sounds. Somewhere between Deathprod, early Cluster I & II, Folk Rabe, and early Vidna Obmana." [Igloo Mag]